Short Inattentive Poems

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Premium Member Missed Truths

His
words were
unheard by
inattentive
ears.




Placed 5th
For John Freeman's "They Know Not What They Do contest.
Form: Lanterne


Premium Member Inattentive

Meanwhile...

Covering The Idle
Space Between...

Mourning Doves
Dominate With
Loving Stupidity...

***

Nope.

Squirrels AND Doves...

'Stand Corrected.'

-Gray Squirrel

05-04-2026

Premium Member River Reverie

An old Mallard dines alone
A memory on the edge of the flock
A weaker yet still viable member
An inattentive sentry
Sifting grey mud
Chasing soggy bread crumbs

The sun warms his weary wings
As the river draws him away

A Great Blue Heron nods G’Day

Companion

Companion.
Comparable, compassionate compatibility.
Committal, compound or common availability.
Glorification panoistic or repudiation ability. 
Inattentive, inappreciable, impudent cruelity.
Repletion straggled and monolith joky stability. 
Licentious, monolatry rendering ostensibility.
Form: Name

Essential

We can smell the fear in their voice

we can feel the anger on their breath

celebrate the inner

detox their guilt

choose calm

re access...

search for your star
and claim it...

Enjoy the journey...

The positive peaceful mindset
looks on...

...As more and more idiots...
have inattentive moments...
Form: Concrete


Premium Member Strayed Sheep

Where is the shepherd
Who left behind his livestock
At the Lover's Seat?

The hired hand sleeps
Inattentive to the flock
The sheep go their way

They are unaware
There is danger near the cliffs
Though the grass is sweet

Where is the Shepherd
Will he retrieve his people
From the Sinner's Seat?
Form: Senryu

Premium Member A Mcdonalds Moment

"I'll have a number six meal with a coke to go please."
"What will you have to drink with that?" McDonalds asked me.
"A coke," I repeated, "to go please."
"Will that be to stay or to go?" asked the inattentive employee.
"To go," I said gritting my teeth.
Every time at McDonalds it's the same old thing.
The next time I get hungry, I'm going to Burger King.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member O, Why'D You Leave

Was it something I said inadvertently
Did my eyes reveal uncertainty
O, why'd you leave

Was my rapt listening inattentive
Or passion's kisses uninventive
O, how I grieve  

Alcohol, not once did I abuse
Or narcotics ever use
O, the sighs I've heaved

To the kids, I was devoted
On your mother, I always doted
O, please believe...

That now I'll never be the same
That I'll forever myself blame
~ To your memory, I will cleave

Estranged

Estranged

He walks about with twelve toes.

They talk about the landing of UFOs over walkie-talkies,
and bog the sympathy of spectators
with manufactured grief,
making their feelings lose contact
with the breaking world.

Nobody could close the Grand Canyon in the soul of a demon who wishes to share his stories with inattentive passers-by
behind face masks and headphones.

Roaming around,
down in the dirt,
with a forgotten passport
that has no facial code
in Times Square.

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